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Betsy Bauer

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Color script lead on Young Jedi Adventures & Assistant Prof at CCS. Past: Dreamworks, Paramount, Sony, & more. Betsy.Bauer.art@gmail.com


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Ugh I have it right now too! So sorry, Christina! Hope you feel better soon!

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Like I always tell my students, if you don’t like doing character turns, you won’t like being a character designer! Here is some of the packeting work for the YJA Tooka kitten. All work is copyright & trademark to 2024 Lucasfilm LTD

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Thank you!!

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Thank you!!

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Thanks Nilah! Yes… it’s somewhat recent with my big guy! I think he’s jealous of the little one haha

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I got Covid over the weekend which sucks but on the bright side look how cute my dogs are

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Same same!!

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I would have freaked out too!!!

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Me too! I am rapidly approaching middle age but still viscerally fear “getting in trouble” 💦💦💦

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I have seen a bunch of articles/jokes online lately about people using self check out to steal and I feel so Pollyannish that I… never realized you could do this???

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Former Googler here. 🖕to their AI integration.

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Here's my summary of the current Ai bubble from next week's newsletter

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My home state! It’s not perfect but I think it’s pretty underrated overall!

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The only silver lining of the hellish temperatures this time of year is that they force me to wake up and actually get a work out in BEFORE I sit down to work, because if I don't and try later, I will die of heatstroke.

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I AM RELEASED FROM NDA SHACKLES. Lucasfilm finally gave artists permission to post their Season 1 Young Jedi Adventures work! I mostly have been responsible for color scripts, but did do some character design early on! I loved developing the kitten version of the Loth/Tooka cat!

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Depending on how clean your line art is you could also try setting the line art layer to “reference”, creating a layer beneath it, and filling in on that layer. This method has never worked great for me though, tbh. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QCf...

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You can slide left or right across the screen while filling to adjust the sensitivity of how many pixels constitute a true hole. Not sure if you’ve tried it already though! help.procreate.com/procreate/ha....

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Me too! I guess in the grand scheme of things alcohol (literal poison) is less sad to lose than bread! Though I do miss wine & margs 🥲

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I fully agree 😭. Every NA wine I’ve tried is either basically grape juice or weirdly sour.

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It is wild how many systems Covid affects!!!

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We’ll see how I do!! I’m taking a long break for now and maybe will try to go back to drinking sometime next year.

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Wow, I started having terrible heart palpitations after even just a couple of drinks last fall. I had an awful case of Covid last July. I never made the connection, but I think this is totally me.

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Do any of the people coming up with these ideas understand why people watch films?

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any company incorporating AI graphics signals "we don't value or care about what we're making, and neither should you."

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Are you looking to cancel your Adobe CC subscription? Did you balk at their early termination fee?

You can do it for FREE:
ui.dev/rwd/articles...

Love me a good loophole. Make it hurt in their wallet. 👏

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I don’t care if AI steals my food pics so here’s some pizza that I made (arugula salad on prosciutto + burrata, and a classic margherita!)

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ℍ𝔼𝕐!

ℍ𝔼𝔸𝔻𝕊 𝕌ℙ 𝔸𝔻𝕆𝔹𝔼 𝕌𝕊𝔼ℝ𝕊!

ℂ𝔸ℕℂ𝔼𝕃 𝔽𝕆ℝ 𝔽ℝ𝔼𝔼!

Alt text for a link to the article, in case it goes away...

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Mood. (Ça a l'air chouette, Cara, mais honnêtement je sais pas si j'ai le courage.)

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Idk how many people realize this, but Dreamworks animation sold & leased back the land that their famous & beautiful campus is on to create cash flow several years ago. Among their many other issues, probably is another ticking time bomb for the studio.

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Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!

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I DON’T WANT TECH TO MAKE BAD ART I WANT TECH TO MAKE MY DOG LIVE SIXTY YEARS

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It’s been rough lately. All of this Meta AI nonsense hit while I was on vacation this past week and I have to say I don’t really feel rested and relaxed now that I’m home 😔

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First of a series of PSAs about the animation industry's current struggle ahead of contract negotiations - please share to spread the word and send to your mom, your friend, your mail carrier, whoever!

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I’m reading a fair amount of comments on Reddit stating that Nightshade is actually easy for programmers to bypass in an AI data training set. Does anyone have additional insight on this? Deleted all of my art off Instagram bc of Meta policies but would love to re-upload after nightshade if safe.

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If you’re upset about Meta scraping your work (and you should be) then I definitely implore you to poison the well. Use nightshade or whatever software on your work before you post it to IG or wherever they’re getting data from. Absolutely Fuck it UP. If they ignore opt-out, fuck em up, Barbara.

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3 week break sounds incredible!!! Thank god I am going on a 10 day vacation this week—it’s something at least!

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There’s also a strange guilt in feeling this way, knowing that work is so scarce right now and that this job is going to end before too much longer, too. I think I need to just go lay in the sunshine for a couple of weeks and I’ll come to my senses and panic like everyone else.

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It’s been an incredible opportunity to build speed and efficiency, but I’m nearing the end of this marathon and I am so very tired.

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So incredibly, incredibly grateful to have work in these troubled industry times, but my lord I do not think I have ever felt as burnt out as I do now. I’ve been churning out a 20ish panel color script every 2-3 weeks for about 2 and a half years with no significant break other than the holidays.

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I impulse bought 3 pints of ice cream flavored coconut, guava, and passion fruit, and I feel like I have been transported to a Hawaiian vacation

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sorry to post from twitter but this is actually so cool i feel like i’ve been hearing about this case for ever

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Scoop from 404 Media: National Archives is banning employees from using ChatGPT. Agency is tasked w/ preserving history; leaked email says "NARA has determined that ChatGPT’s unrestricted approach to reusing input data poses an unacceptable risk" www.404media.co/national-arc...

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I am so unmotivated to make art lately but I fixed up a picnic table this weekend! I didn’t take a proper before photo, but that first one mid-wash shows how rough it was looking before some TLC!

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I hate gorey shows but I loved Fallout? Guess if there is enough humor & the characters are good enough I can get over it

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